This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
boulevardier
pachyderm
revenant
rhapsode
bon viveur

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(REV-uh-nuhnt)

MEANING:

noun: A person who returns after a long absence or supposedly after death.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French revenant (ghost), from revenir (to return), from Latin re- (again) + venire (to come). Earliest documented use: 1823.

USAGE:

“Lawrence Osborne seems to be a revenant from a species that has, paradoxically, become almost extinct following the triumph of globalisation: the traveller (or travel-writer)-novelist.”
Neel Mukherjee; Hunters in the Dark; The Guardian (London, UK); May 6, 2015.

See more usage examples of revenant in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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